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Star-Spangled Banner: Best and Worst Celebrity Performances

The pre-Super Bowl “Star-Spangled Banner” puts pop stars in one of the biggest, brightest spotlights on the planet. Which is great if you’re Whitney Houston, who delivered one of the all-time best renditions of America’s hymn before the 1991 game in Miami. But if you forget the words, like Christina Aguilera did before Super Bowl XLV last night, football fans may never let you forget. Watch the good, the bad, and the most ear-splitting celebrity renditions of the national anthem.

Christina Aguilera Fumbles

The Steelers weren't the only ones whose Super Bowl performance didn’t go according to plan: Christina Aguilera surprised football fans with new anthem lyrics Sunday, singing “What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last reaming," instead of "O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming.”

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